Pinguy OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution targeted at beginning Linux users. It features numerous user-friendly enhancements, out-of-the-box support for multimedia codecs and browser plugins, a heavily tweaked GNOME user interface with enhanced menus, panels and dockbars, and a careful selection of popular desktop applications for many common computing tasks.

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Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.

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Version: 18.04Rating: 3Date: 2018-07-04Votes: 2

Loaded the live DVD. Using 1.5GB of memory at idle. Ouch! Very bloated and inefficient. There are much better distros to choose from.

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Version: 14.04.5Rating: 3Date: 2018-06-19Votes: 1

Every now and then I like to start from the bottom of the DistroWatch list and install some old forgotten distro.

PinguyOS is exactly where it should be, at the bottom of the heap. The only thing going for it was it recognized my old NVIDIA card and installed the correct driver. Other than that it's a hodge poge mix of Debian, Mint and Ubuntu.

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Version: 18.04-beta2Rating: 9Date: 2018-06-09Votes: 2

Great to see this feature rich distro is back. Tried it about for years ago, when I first discovered Linux, but then it fell off the cliff.

Yes, this new version is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with all its faults but a great comeback package.

Everything seems to work straight out of the box. It's up against the big boys, like Elementary, with its look. But, the bigger they are the further they have to fall.